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Titre De quelques composantes de l'aliénation politique
Auteur François Chazel
Mir@bel Revue Revue Française de Sociologie
Numéro 1976, 17-1
Page 101-115
Résumé anglais François Chazel : Elements in Political Alienation. After having pointed out and denounced certain reminiscences of an ethical ? and fundamentally presociological ? mode of thought, the author distinguishes two major varieties of political alienation. The first consists of a lax relationship between the actors' « requirements » and the functioning of the political system; this is represented by ? without thus being reduced to ? typical « responses », all of which belong to the generic category of a feeling of powerlessness. Depending on the level and nature of expectations, these responses are capable of assuming three very differentiated forms : a feeling of radical dependence, a consciousness of noncontrol and a consciousness of nondirection. The second variety of political alienation is characterized by a somewhat « exploded » relationship between the actors and the political system; it shows up in more or less charged and generalized expressions of uncertainty. Although the search for consensus on the theme of alienation be in vain, the author recalls various conditions which the elaboration of this concept, if it is to be sociologically relevant, must satisfy.
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